Andrea Bryer, 42 of Nashua, NH [FOUND DECEASED]

[Grande]

Police search for missing woman
By JOSEPH G. COTE Telegraph Staff
NASHUA – Police are looking for a city woman who has been missing for more than a week.

Andrea Bryer, 42, of Walden Pond Drive, was last seen around 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, according to her mother, Marcia Bryer.

Marcia Bryer left that night to go to the movies, and Andrea Bryer was gone when she returned around 10 p.m., she said. She thinks someone had been at the house in the intervening time because there were empty beer cans, and two chairs that had been pulled together on the front porch.

Andrea Bryer, who stands 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds, didn't take her purse or car, but did take her daily medication and cell phone.

Nashua police Sgt. Mike Masella said police have talked to Andrea Bryer's friends and family but have no leads at this time.

"There's nothing in the reports that indicates to me that anyone suspects foul play," he said.

This isn't the first time Andrea has disappeared, Marcia Bryer said, but she's never been gone for this long.

"She might be gone for a day or two but usually in a day she would call me," Marcia Bryer said. "But there's been nothing."

Marcia said the family has called all of Andrea's friends and checked for her at bars and restaurants she frequents.

"We're all pretty concerned and worried," Andrea's brother, David Bryer, said. "She's taken off for a few days here and there, but the thing is, no one's heard. No one's heard a thing out of her."

David Bryer said he was able to check her cell phone activity online, but the last call was made around 6:30 p.m. the day she disappeared. Her voicemail picks up immediately, he said, as if the phone was turned off or the battery had died.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071203/NEWS01/312030061/-1/news

[Grande]

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[KittyMom]

http://nsimg.sv.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=NS&Date=20071203&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=312030061&Ref=AR&border=0&MaxW=253

link has photo of Andrea Bryer.

[Pauli]

Police Want Help Finding Missing Woman

Bryer Last Seen On Nov. 23

POSTED: 12:48 pm EST March 7, 2008
UPDATED: 1:49 pm EST March 7, 2008

NASHUA, N.H. -- Police in Nashua are asking the public for help finding a woman who has been missing for several months. Police said Andrea Bryer, 42, was last seen in Nashua on Nov. 23. Her family has not heard from her since then. Investigators have checked Bryer's credit card use and telephone records and come up with no clues as to where she might be. They are asking anyone who might know where Bryer is to call police or Nashua's Crimeline at 603-589-1665.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/mostpopular/15526960/detail.html

[packy]

This sure does seem too long of a time to be gone without word even if she has been gone before.

Wouldn't it be too cold there at that time for someone to sit out on the porch if that is what took place? Caused me to think that maybe someone came over that she didn't know too well, and maybe made a decision to keep the visit out in the open at first anyway.

[Faith]

Published: Friday, May 30, 2008

Woman's corpse found in river

NASHUA – Police were investigating the discovery of a woman's body in the Merrimack River in Thoreau's Landing late Thursday.

The white, fully clothed woman was found partially submerged in the water near the river behind homes in the area of 49-57 Walden Pond Drive, Nashua police Sgt. Frank Sullivan said.

"We cannot rule out any foul play," Sullivan said, adding that officials with the Hillsborough County Attorneys Office had been notified.

An autopsy is scheduled for today at the state lab in Concord, he said, adding that if results from that procedure point to criminal activity, officials with the attorney general's office would be involved.

A resident came upon the body while walking her dog and summoned another resident who then called police at about 7:30 p.m., Sullivan and neighbors said.

The body appeared to be lying on its side about 4 feet in on the west side riverbank, Sullivan said."She's been there a while, probably a month," Sullivan said, adding that while the body had decomposed from being in the water, it was in "decent shape."

Sullivan said the recent lowering of the river water might have prompted the discovery of the body.

The river is about 5 feet below the normal depth due to repairs currently being done at a hydroelectric dam in Lowell, Mass.

The area where the body was found is about 280 yards from the home of Andrea Bryer, a 42-year-old woman whose family reported her missing in late November.

Bryer's mother, Marcia Bryer, told The Telegraph in December that she had come home from the movies on the night of Nov. 23 to find her daughter gone. Empty beer cans and two chairs pulled together on the front porch led her to believe that somebody had been at her home at some point while she was out, Bryer said at that time.

Shortly before 9 p.m., Angela Tasian, a close friend who spoke for Bryer at Bryer's home, said a Nashua detective had been at the residence and informed them that a body had been found nearby.

"We don't know anything yet," Tasian said.

Sullivan said various dental records including Bryer's are going to be compared during today's autopsy.

Thoreau's Landing is a private community of homes that line a portion of the riverbank at the east end of Lock Street.

Soon after the discovery of the body, numerous marked and unmarked police cars jammed the cul-de-sac near the homes closest to where the body was found.

Police preserved the scene around the body for several hours while waiting for the medical examiner to arrive and confirm that it was, in fact, the body of woman, Sullivan said.

At 8 p.m., police had weaved yellow plastic caution tape through the trees in a wide section of lawn behind homes in two cul-de-sacs all the way to the riverbank.

Numerous plain-clothed detectives and uniform officers could be seen milling around in the area at that time.

At 9 p.m., some of the neighbors who witnessed the scene said police officers had told them not to talk about what they had seen.

The trickle of information was excruciating for some residents, who were aware of gruesome discovery on the riverbank behind their homes and were nervously waiting for any news about the nature of the find.

"I know I am not going to sleep well tonight," Shirley Magno, of 57 Walden Pond Drive, said at 8:45 p.m.

Divers with the Nashua Fire Rescue dive team were dispatched to the scene at about that time and arrived at private community shortly thereafter.

State medical examiner Wayne DiGeronimo arrived at the scene at about 9 p.m., Sullivan said.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/NEWS01/516628189/-1/news

[Faith]

Published: Saturday, May 31, 2008
Body found in river ID'd as missing woman; manner of death has not been determined


NASHUA – An autopsy has identified the body found in the Merrimack River as that of Andrea Bryer, 42, who had been missing from her 83 Walden Pond Drive home since November.

"There was no foul play," Nashua police Sgt. Thomas MacLeod said Friday night of Bryer's death.

The cause and manner of death have not yet been determined, pending additional tests, he said.

Bryer's body was found Thursday evening, about four feet from the western bank of the river in Thoreau's Landing, a private community of homes at the east end of Lock Street, police and witnesses said.

"It appears that the body has been in the water for a while," Lt. George McCarthy of the Nashua Police Department's detective bureau said Friday afternoon.

A resident walking her dog came upon the body at about 7:30 p.m. after spotting it in the river near the area of 49-57 Walden Pond Drive. The location of the body was about 300 yards from Bryer's home.

Bryer had been living at the home of her mother, Marcia Bryer.

Reached Friday, Marcia Bryer said police told her on Thursday that a body had been found nearby. She had steadied herself for further news that it was Andrea's because police had also informed her that the body had an arm brace. Her daughter had been wearing a wrist brace at the time she went missing Nov. 23, she said.

"It's been a long winter. She's been gone six months," Bryer said.

In December, Bryer told The Telegraph that she went to the movies the night of Nov. 23 and found her daughter gone when she returned. She said she believed that someone had been at the house in the intervening time because two chairs had been pulled together on the front porch and there were empty beer cans.

Thursday night police roped off a wide section of land around the area of the body while waiting for state medical examiner Wayne DiGeronimo to arrive and confirm the death.

DiGeronimo arrived at about 9 p.m. and the body was removed shortly thereafter.

At that time, Detective Sgt. Frank Sullivan said by cell phone from the scene that police could not rule out any foul play in the death.

Officials with the Attorney General's office were not involved in the case at that time, he said, but the Hillsborough County Attorney's office had been notified.

The body was in "decent shape," Sullivan said at the time, adding that the medical examiner would be comparing dental records with the body during the autopsy that had been scheduled for the next day.

Sullivan also said at that time that the medical examiner had estimated that Bryer's body appeared to have been out for "months," however that information was erroneously interpreted and reported as "month" due to a bad cell phone connection.

It is not clear how Bryer's body was preserved throughout a six-month period, or how well.

On Friday, McCarthy said the body's clothing had gotten tangled in the branches of a tree, preventing the river's current from carrying it downstream.

McCarthy and Sullivan both surmised that the body might have recently become more noticeable because of the low level of the river.

The river had been lowered this week by five feet due to repairs at a hydroelectric dam in Lowell, Mass.

The autopsy was performed Friday at Concord State Hospital. Police ruled out foul play in connection with Bryer's death shortly after, MacLeod said.

Andrea's death was the third recent tragedy for the family, Marcia Bryer said.

Her husband, Edward Bryer, died last May, and her oldest son, Matthew Bryer, 52, died unexpectedly in Tennessee last June. :cryintime:

"This is too much in one year," Bryer said.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080531/NEWS01/861214634/-1/news

[Nut44x4]

Body of missing Nashua woman found in river
By SUZANNE BATES
Union Leader Correspondent
16 hours, 45 minutes ago

NASHUA – The body of a woman who has been missing since November was found in the Merrimack River Thursday.

Yesterday police identified the woman as Andrea Bryer, 42, of 83 Walden Pond Drive in Nashua.

Bryer was reported missing on Nov. 23 by her mother, Marcia Bryer.

According to a missing persons Web site, Bryer was last seen by her mother around 6 p.m. that evening, but was gone by the time her mother returned at 10 p.m.

The cause of death is still under investigation, but at this point, police do not believe foul play was involved, said Nashua Police Lt. George McCarthy.

An autopsy was conducted Thursday at the Concord State Hospital, but police are still waiting for the results of additional tests before determining the cause of death, McCarthy said.

Bryer's body was found by a woman who was walking her dog in the gated Nahsua neighborhood lining the Merrimack River where Bryer lived with her parents, McCarthy said.

McCarthy said police believe the body had been there for some time.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Body+of+missing+Nashua+woman +found+in+river&articleId=ddc0354b-c51f-49b9-9854-70ea56061a1f


very sad, indeed... :girl_sad: